"Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome."
Sophia Loren
as Antonietta Taberi
Marcello Mastroianni
as Gabriele
John Vernon
as Emanuele Taberi
Françoise Berd
as Concierge
Patrizia Basso
as Romana Taberi
Tiziano De Persio
as Arnaldo Taberi
Maurizio Di Paolantonio
as Fabio Taberi
Antonio Garibaldi
as Littorio Taberi
Vittorio Guerrieri
as Umberto Taberi
Alessandra Mussolini
as Maria Luisa Taberi
Nicole Magny
as Officer's Daughter
Galeazzo Ciano
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Ettore Scola
Director
Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Giorgio Scotton
Production Manager
Sergio Bologna
Administration
Berta Betti
Seamstress
Giuseppina Delli Carpini
Screenplay
Ezio Di Monte
Assistant Production Design
Maurizio Anticoli
Unit Manager
Pina Triunveri
Assistant Editor
Silvio Ferri
First Assistant Director
Luciano Leoni
Gaffer
Maurizio Costanzo
Graziella Di Giovanni
Marcello Mastrogirolamo
Assistant Camera
Ruggero Maccari
Ilde Muscio
Script Supervisor
Gianfranco Lelj
Still Photographer
Luciano Anzellotti
Foley Artist
Idelmo Simonelli
Camera Operator
Vivien Boden
Production Secretary
Paola Scola
Story
Aldo Colanzi
Key Grip
Giovanni Viti
Assistant Costume Designer
Carlo Palmieri
Sound
Pasqualino De Santis
Director of Photography
Franco Bassi
Sound Mixer
Enrico Sabbatini
Costume Design
Ada Palombi
Hairstylist
Alvaro Orsini
Boom Operator
Luciano Ricceri
Production Design
Franco Freda
Makeup Artist
Raimondo Crociani
Editor
Cesare D'Amico
Dialogue Editor